The nuclear industry is always a net consumer of energy. To meet increasing demand if nuclear capacity is increased, it results in fossil and other fuels to be guzzled in other types of power plants built to meet forever increasing demand. This goes on raising the health risks to all life and other risks like earthquakes. Nuclear is never an option for meeting energy demands.

Thursday, February 07, 2013

The Nadir of Nukes: They murder. Stop them now.

Re: Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Is Destined To Reset The Nuclear Priorities In India

This
is an excellent article highlighting why the Kudankulam questions are
destined to reset the nuclear priorities and hence of the excesses of
modern civilization in India and the world. And there are many new ones
which have intensified the cumulative effects of many interventions of
man into nature, resulting in the rape of Mother Earth, rendering many a
habitat of life unusable, and many systems to meet the felt needs of
greedy excesses of modern specialist societies going far beyond the
design basis limits of operation. I have shown in peer reviewed articles
why nuclear energy programmes consume more energy and power than they
produce from year to year.Google search for energy audit of the indian nuclear programme for details. Thus we
will forever be supplying energy and power to the nuclear programmes ad
infinitum and will be forever short of electricity. This will mean ever
more nukes on Mother Earth poisoning and converting us all life into
nuclear wastes. Nukes therefore economicswise and healthwise compromise
our very basis of existence, rendering all the web of nature
radioactive. That is why the late Chair of USNRC Dr John W Gofman
remarked in 1979 itself:"There is no way I can justify my failure to
help sound an alarm over these activities many years sooner than I did. I
feel that at least several hundred scientists trained in biomedical
aspects of atomic energy-myself included-are candidates for Nuremburg
type trials for crimes against humanity for our gross negligence and
irresponsibility. [But] now we know the hazards of low-dose radiation,
the crime is not experimentation, it's murder."

Another serious
cumulative effect is that of stabilising the grid with hydro power
plants because of the proliferation of base load plants like nukes. The
hydro plants and other dams meeting our needs cause the direct heating
up of the earth causing rocks to melt causing huge earthquakes which
destroyed Fukushima as well as causing climate change,along with other
causes. Further during the dynamic disequilibrium period when the water
moment arm of the waters behind dams is moving from one earthquake to
another, the water moment surges attack the base of the structures like
nukes and cause vibrations which may throw the dynamic balance of the
turbine awry! And cause the blades to fly. Look at the 31 March 1993 331
AM graveyard shift occurrence at Narora:(yyyy,mm,dd,hhmmss.SS,Latitude,
Longitude, Magnitude of quake,Depth km,data group(USGS)
1993,03,30,214321.16, 42.994, 145.320,5.0, 94,PDE
1993,03,30,222522.10, 38.379, 45.047,4.5, 45,PDE
As the water moment arm moved from longitude 145 to longitude 45, it struck Narora(Latitude = 28.1967, Longitude = 78.3814 )
turbine foundation at 2215 UTC on 30 March 1993 to throw the turbine
off balance and the rest is history! Of course the cracks might have
been waiting for just such a trigger!
For comparison see what could have happened to the Mumbai Bridge near the airport on 6 Feb 2013:
2013-02-06 17:19:31.0 11.66 S 165.06 E 10 5.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
2013-02-06 17:14:14.1 38.74 N 40.28 E 5 1.8 EASTERN TURKEY
by analogy. Data from EMSC(Google search).
The location of Bridge Collapse: Latitude = 19.1173, Longitude = 72.8840 Let us analyse a little to see the logic of this scientific assertion.Let us compute the distances.Taking Narora first:The distance from the Japanese location 42.994, 145.320 to the Turkey Location 38.379, 45.047 is 7919 km.The distance from the Japanese location to Narora is6103 km.The ratio is 6103/7919 =

0.770678

The time difference Turkey to Japan is =

0.70025

Thus the time of arrival of the water moment surge at Narora is Japan quake time + time difference Japan to Narora=

22.26222

This is 22hrs 15 mins 44 seconds.The time of start of Narora occurrence is given as 3 hrs 31 mins IST 31 March 1993 or 22 hrs 01 mins UTC.Thus the surge has arrived some 15 minutes earlier than the linear proportion time computed or is off by .25/22.016 x 100 = 1.13% !Whether this is a fluke can be determined by arbitrarily choosing the Mumbai bridge collapse of 6 February at 2245 hrs IST or 1715 hrs UTC.The distance to Santa Cruz Islands quake location from that of E.Turkey is 13802 km. The distance to Marol bridge collapse location from that of East Turkey is 3815 km.The distance ratio is

0.276409

The time of surge arrival at Bridge collapse point is Time of East Turkey earthquake + (time difference between Bride collapse and East Turkey quake=distance ratio x time difference Santa Cruz quake to Turkey quake)This is

17.26158

or 17 hrs 15.6949 mins UTC.The bridge actually is reported to have collapsed at 17 hrs 15 mins UTC(22hrs 45 mins IST).Thus our computation is out by 0.067% !The dynamics of dams are thus implicated quite deterministically as my deep study on dams indicates.The year 1993 has been a year of high stress for Mother Earth because of the catastrophic dam initiated surges which caused a number of earthquakes called damquakes by me for short.See the compliation of data on significant earthquakes,1993(USGS) at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1993.phpNotice that there have been one major damquake in January 1993 on the 15th,one on March 6 1993,one on June 8 1993,one(7.6 MM,shallow 17 km deep at Hokkaido,Japan) on July 12 1993 which killed 200 people including about 165 at Okushiri.One person on a
fishing boat was killed off Aomori, Honshu. Three people were
missing from the southeast coast of Russia. Severe damage (V
JMA) was caused by the earthquake and accompanying fires,
landslides and tsunami in southwestern Hokkaido. 540 houses
were destroyed and 1,834 others were damaged. Approximately 600
fishing boats were damaged or lost off western Japan,
southeastern Russia and South Korea. Tsunami wave heights as
high as 30.6 meters was reported along the southwest coast of
Okushiri Island, 10 meters along the west coast of Hokkaido, 3
meters at Nakhodka, Russia, 2 meters along the northeast coast
of South Korea and nearly 1 meter at Aomori, Honshu. The
tsunami affected much of the southeastern coast of Russia and
also caused damage to a factory at Kamenka, Sakhalin Island.And look at this great 8 MM damquake on 8/8/1993:

08 08:34:24.9 12.982 144.801 59 G 7.1 8.0 1.1 438 SOUTH OF MARIANA
ISLANDS. Mw 7.5 (GS), 7.8 (HRV). Ms 8.2 (BRK). Mo=2.2*10**20 Nm
(GS). Mo=5.2*10**20 Nm (HRV). Mo=7.8*10**20 Nm (OBN).
Mo=9.0*10**20 Nm (PPT). Forty-eight people injured on Guam.
Extensive damage (IX) to hotels in the Tumon Bay area. Cracks
tens of meters long and 25-50 cm wide, caused by liquefaction
in the underlying soil, damaged facilities at the commercial
port and naval base at Apra Harbor. Damage (VII) occurred at
several locations in the northern half of the island. One end
of the approach to a bridge at Pago Bay fell more than 35 cm.
Many landslides and rockslides were reported, mainly in the
southern half of the island. The preliminary estimate of loss
from damage to commercial buildings is placed at 112 million
U.S. dollars and loss from damage to private residences is
estimated at several million U.S. dollars. Slight damage (V) on
Saipan. Felt (VI) on Rota and (V) on Tinian. Tsunami generated
with maximum wave heights at selected tide stations as follows:
98 cm at Muroto-misaki, Shikoku; 68 cm on Chichi-shima, Bonin
Islands; 58 cm at Tosashimizu, Shikoku; 56 cm at Aburatsu,
Kyushu; 46 cm at Mera and Owase, Honshu; 44 cm at Ayukawahama,
Honshu; 42 cm at Omae-zaki, Honshu; 34 cm at Hanasaki and
Kushimoto, Honshu, 34 cm at Hirara, Ryukyu Islands; 28 cm at
Ofunato, Honshu; 24 cm at Kochi, Shikoku; 19 cm at Port Allen,
Kauai; 15 cm at Lahania, Maui; 14 cm at Haleiwa, Oahu; 12 cm at
Hachinohe, Honshu and Kahului, Maui; 7 cm at Kapoho, Hawaii and
Nawiliwili, Kauai; 5 cm at Honokohau, Hawaii.

And look at this in New Zealand(10 August):

10 00:51:53.2 -45.277 166.927 28 G 6.2 7.0 1.1 420 OFF WEST COAST OF SOUTH
ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Mw 7.0 (GS), 7.0 (HRV). Mo=3.3*10**19 Nm
(GS). Mo=3.3*10**19 Nm (HRV). Mo=4.0*10**19 Nm (PPT). Felt (VI)
on South Island within 150 km of the epicenter. Power outages
reported in the Te Anau area. Felt throughout South Island and
in southern North Island. Also felt at Sydney, Australia.

On the 10th September 1993 a major damquake struck at Chiapas, Mexico. And we have the disaster in Latur, Maharashtra which was felt by us in Navi Mumbai when the beds vibrated early in the morning of 30th September 1993(IST):

Conclusion
Oh!
The whole thing is not a fluke, as we at Countercurrent themes would
like to point out scientifically. And as Gofman would put it , the
science is only semi prudent when there are uncertainties. We must in
such cases apply the precautionary principle and stop making the choice
till the matter is resolved by designing around our ignorance! See by
google search Collaterals of Climate change for a taste of the problem
of cumulative positive feedback effects in a society of specialists. So
on and on. Either we live or the excesses of modern civilization. We
want to live! Stop nukes and instead of dams Reforest Mother Earth to
Live!(Google search).

The only tribute to Mahatma
Gandhi anyone can pay is to forego fission nuclear energy cycle as an
electricity option. This is because this aspect of modern civilization's
cumulative effect on all life namely the self destruction of modern
civilization is a critical component of policy which is well on its way
to cause extinction. Why? It is because it causes perfect mass murders
which great people like Andrei Sakharov foresaw and put an end to
atmospheric nuclear tests. But even during normal operations nukes
contaminate the planet to make them totally unacceptable. Moreover the
deficit energy audit of a programme of nukes hastens the construction of
more and more nukes in utter ignorance of the audit. By a cumulative
effect this results in extinction, what with hydrodams joining the fray
to cause by a nuclear effect the explosion of reactors and waste dumps
as happened in Chernobyl, Fukushima and Kyshtym. Please call of all
nuke deals now. They are pralaya.